Robots in the industrial factory plant build the backbone for CIM, which is outlined to bc the factory automation strategy of the future. In this paper a hierarchical manufacturing cell control system for robotic work cells is described. This approach is based on low-cost personal computer hardware
Simulation of hierarchical manufacturing control
β Scribed by S. Cem Karacal
- Book ID
- 104329114
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 378 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-8352
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β¦ Synopsis
This paper addresses a new unified framework for simulation that includes both physical and decision making processes of manufacturing systems. The developed methodology uses a state-space representation based simulation-modeling formalism along with object oriented software design. The modularity of user's conceptual model in terms of physical and decision making entities with their programmed and non-programmed decisions and the capability of modeling these entities and processes at different hierarchical levels can vastly improves simulation's role as a decision making tool.
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